filled with remorse for what you have done. Know that God’s Messenger is among you. If he obeyed you in many matters, you would surely come to grief. But God has endeared the Faith to you and beautified it in

wrongdoing and disobedience abhorrent to you. Such are those who are rightly guided through God’s grace and blessing. God is wise and all-knowing. If two parties of the believers take up arms against one another

submit to God’s judgement. When they submit, make peace between them in equity and justice; God loves the just. The believers are one brotherhood; make peace among your brothers and fear God, so that you

filled with remorse for what you have done. Know that God’s Messenger is among you. If he obeyed you in many matters, you would surely come to grief. But God has endeared the Faith to you and beautified it in

wrongdoing and disobedience abhorrent to you. Such are those who are rightly guided through God’s grace and blessing. God is wise and all-knowing. If two parties of the believers take up arms against one another

submit to God’s judgement. When they submit, make peace between them in equity and justice; God loves the just. The believers are one brotherhood; make peace among your brothers and fear God, so that you

time. One, thanksgiving, the other taqwa or righteousness. Food and drink are two great blessings of God. But in normal circumstances man does not realize it. During fasting when he abstains from these things

thirst, only then he realizes how great these blessings of God really are. Overwhelmed with this experience, he expresses his gratitude to God from the innermost recesses of his heart. This inculcates the

taqwa or living a God-fearing life. Taqwa means that man should keep himself away from all those things that God has forbidden in this life and he should do only those things that God has allowed him to

alluded to in the chapter Yunus (Jonah). The translation of the relevant verse is as follows: Say, ‘If God had so wished, I would not have recited it to you, nor would He have brought it to your knowledge.

you are telling a lie, we cannot believe that your claim of being a Prophet of God is true.” When he proclaimed that God had appointed him as a prophet, no one was able to deny his claim. This miracle

to say about divine revelations, because they had never witnessed an angel of God coming to him to reveal the word of God. But he added: “O Muhammad, we do not say that you are telling a lie. So far as

he needs to enable him to believe in God, and then to place himself at His service. If, in spite of this, he does not believe in God, and fails to acknowledge God’s power and perfection, then it is he himself

who has found God has found everything. After the discovery of God, no further discovery remains to be made. Thus, when a man has discovered God, his entire attention is focused upon Him. God, for him, becomes

same is true of one’s realization of God. A man who has truly discovered God will blissfully savour the essence of the experience. Anyone who claims to have discovered God without this accompanying sense of

in you, or nothing of Heaven can live in you.” The most sinful attitude that man can adopt before God is one of pride. Other sins may be forgivable, but for pride there is no forgiveness. Pride, whether

mortal creature who can take precedence over it. The most sinful attitude that man can adopt before God is one of pride. Other sins may be forgivable, but for pride there is no forgiveness. It is only

true nature of things who will receive God’s blessings. Mr Murray again puts is aptly: “Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.” To attain to this state of blessedness

Prophet went to the extent of noting: “One who does not acknowledge people, cannot even acknowledge God.” (Ahmad) If you add a pinch of dye to a glass of water, all of the water becomes coloured. Likewise

neighbour. Thus one who acknowledges God in prayer regularly, but is not grateful to the people who have benefitted him in life, cannot be regarded as paying sincere thanks to God. This acknowledgment of and gratitude

great divine gift. God created human beings, then He provided them with natural vehicles such as horses, camels, mules and others for travel. This was the first phase of vehicles. God knew that this would

will find that the Quran addresses all of mankind. In the very first chapter of the Quran, Allah (God) is called Rab ul-alamin (Lord of the Worlds), not Rab ul-muslimin (Lord of the Muslims). The Quran

all alien to the Quranic scheme. The Quran gives Muslims a global mission — spreading the word of God among all of mankind. This mission requires a mind that is open to all peoples. Without this kind of

to those who deny the truth and the hypocrites: ignore their hurtful talk and put your trust in God; God is your all-sufficient guardian. THE QURAN 33: 48 All the prophets, including the Prophet of Islam

all-powerful and loving God.” The problem of evil is the question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an Omnipotent, Omnibenevolent, and Omniscient God. To put it simply, this

this is a question of why there is so much suffering in the world if there indeed is a God who loves His creation. The present world appears meaningless when seen independently, that is, without joining

creation plan of the Creator. The creation plan of God provides the only criterion by which to judge the nature of this matter. The creation plan of God as revealed to His Prophet is that this world is a

SPIRITUAL RAIMENTSometimes God chooses a messenger to convey His word to the people, but his status as a guide is not readily acceptable to them. For this would imply that they were inferior to the messenger

am better,’ a person is not prepared to acknowledge the superiority of his brother. In the eyes of God, this amounts to treading the path of Satan. In such instances, one who treads the path of jealousy

an abode in the garden of Paradise. SPIRITUAL RAIMENT Spiritual Raiment means to live in fear of God, acknowledge the Truth, be modest and lead a principled life. Chapter 7of the Quran states: “O children